Six Candidates Now Running for County Board

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by ARLnow.com November 18, 2011 at 1:59 pm 4,522 26 Comments

(Updated at 2:15 p.m.) Health care advocate and Democratic activist Kim Klingler (right) announced her candidacy for County Board this afternoon, bringing the already-crowded field of ~~Democrats~~ candidates hoping to replace state Senator-elect Barbara Favola to six.

In her announcement, Klingler said she’s running because she wants to “serve and represent our community.”

“I want to continue to work on putting people first,” she wrote. “I want to do this in a fiscally responsible way, promoting efficiency, transparency, and our values.”

Klingler also posted a YouTube video to accompany the campaign announcement.

The field of announced County Board candidates now includes Klingler, nonprofit project manager Melissa Bondi, Arlington County Planning Commission member Peter Fallon, Iraq war vet Terron Sims II, Arlington NAACP president Elmer Lowe, and — as of last night — school board member Libby Garvey.

The candidates will face off in a special election next year. The exact timing of the special election depends on when Favola formally resigns her County Board seat.

Captain Obvious

Scott, are you sure that Elmer Lowe is running as a Democrat?
- ARLnow.com
  
  No, that was phrased incorrectly. We’ve updated the article, thanks.
- Captain Obvious
  
  And, have you reached out to Lowe to find out if he’s actually running?
  - ARLnow.com
    
    He was quoted by the Sun Gazette (linked to in the article) as saying, directly, that he’s running.
    - Captain Obvious
      
      But that was before he knew there was a seat.
OMG OMG OMG

teh u-tube video … eww.
- Josh S
  
  Yeah, not exactly an auspicious start.
- Ricky Bobby Hands
  
  Based on her hand-i-work, I’m guessing, what, Brown Belt in Slow-Motion Karate?
- OMG OMG OMG
  
  First prognostication, purely for entertainment value:
  
  Garvey 35%
  Sims 20
  Bondi 20
  Fallon 15
  Lowe 5
  Klingler 5
  - charlie
    
    well done.
    Garvey changes the equation. in a very good way.
    - OMG OMG OMG
      
      Thanks. I come here often.
as they say…

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
charlie

why is she talking about compassionate stuff but all her “first things” are transportation, planning, capital improvements and…. oh i forgot. but nothing in there about joining the OCCUPY DC people on Key Bridge; or affordable housing; or spending more on schools.
- Suburban Not Urban
  
  Because the bulk of the party that she’s trying to run for – are willing to accept lots of lip service and spin and she want to touch base on all the hot button issues – rather than representing how she really will act after being elected.
TDP

Oooooh, a young woman running for office. That’s great news. Good for you!
Bob

Still all true. A little snow, a little earthquake, a little hurricane. We’re not prepared.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA8z94MXo9M&feature=related
Arl Voter

I only see white people on Kim Klingler’s website. What kind of message is that? That’s not very cool. She should make more of an effort to include diversity in her photos.
- Cheapshot
  
  Yeah, we should totally read more into the stock photos used on the web site than is really there, in part because race is definitely the only way to display diversity. And I also agree with Arl Voter that rather than trying to be race-blind (which might prevent us from even noticing the racial breakdown in the pictures and/or from attempting to categorize the photo subjects’ races without any actual knowledge of their backgrounds), we should make sure we view all media through a lens that seeks to be offended. Furthermore, I think every piece of media everywhere should feature an exact proportion of photo subjects relative to the racial makeup statistics published by the Census Bureau. Or else it’s “not very cool.”
  - Josh S
    
    +1
  - Bluemontsince1961
    
    Seconding the +1.
Burger

Doesn’t the fact there are at least 6 Democrats running for a short term position set off any alarm bells that the current board has stayed too long in their positions?

Was Ferguson the last person to leave the board – not surprising to move to another government position? That was what – 2003?

If that doesn’t demonstrate the need for a breaking of the democrat’s county board’s power not sure what else does.
- TCE
  
  …funny I feel that way about the Republican’s in the House in Richmond.
  - Wow
    
    Yet it took the GOP 200 years to get full control from the Dems who had held on to some or all of it since the begining of the Commonwealth….
    - drax
      
      Just goes to show why equating party with ideology, and therefore this entire thread of the discussion, is pointless in the first place.
- bemused bystander
  
  2007.
  - Burger
    
    Thanks. Sees like longer on Ferguson”

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